My middle son has put me to a task; find a portable, battery powered sound system that is "louder than what the girls have". I'm getting clarification on what that is exactly, but the story is that on the way to cross country meets the girls have a louder boom box than the boys and the boys are tired of it. Keep in mind these are high school kids... So they have an arbitrary budget of $400 between the 32 of them and (unfortunately) their go-to device is the beats audio beat box at $399, which on a noisy bus will get lost pretty quickly.

LMAO... OK, so the boy texted me back... and I quote;"something like a 8x3x4 piece of junk... but its still better than our 4x4x2 piece of junk, so we get to envy theirs... it looks like a mesh brick"

And this from the boy who placed second in state in an essay contest, holds a 3.9 unweighted GPA and is taking 5 AP classes this semeseter - but plays Stairway to Heaven and Dust in the Wind flawlessly (amongst others), so I will cut him some slack.